| 单词 | bush cricket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbush cricket bush cricket n. a cricket that frequents bushes; (in later use) spec. any of numerous orthopterans constituting the family Tettigoniidae, which resemble grasshoppers but have long antennae, stridulate using their wings, and are often nocturnal and predatory; also called long-horned grasshopper, (North American) katydid. ΚΠ 1845 R. Howitt Impressions Austral. Felix 74 Multitudinous was the clatter and whirl of bush-crickets. 1909 H. Maxwell-Lefroy Indian Insect Life 103 The small bush crickets are to some extent predaceous on small insects. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses viii. 161 Crickets are variously known as mole-crickets (burrowers in the ground), bush-crickets, tree-crickets.., and field crickets. 1974 W. Condry Woodlands iv. 57 The oak bush-cricket (Meconema thalassinum) [is] the only British grasshopper or cricket which lives in trees. 2006 Guardian 28 Mar. ii. 11/2 The wart-biter bush-cricket is just managing to cling on in five widely separated populations..in southern Britain. < as lemmas |
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